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New Feature: Ability to add new timezones.

Asked by T J on 2015-08-31

I've needed to create custom timezones and make them available to pytz. Presently, I do this via monkeypatching, but it would be nice if this were officially supported. I'd like to be able to provide the location of a tzfile, or give it a name and DstTzInfo instance.

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Stuart Bishop (stub) said : #1

This should work:

with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
    tzinfo = tzfile.build_tzinfo(zonename, f)

If this is good enough, it could be officially supported.

T J (tjhnson) said : #2

Yes, that should work just fine. I'll leave it to you to decide whether this should also populate pytz.all_timezones and pytz.all_timezones_set. The idea being that the custom timezones would be accessible via pytz.timezone().